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Workshop Newsletter
September
2000
By
Bruce Moen
Welcome
to the first issue of the Workshop Newsletter.
Each
of you receiving this newsletter expressed interest in attending my Exploring
the Afterlife workshop either by sending in a form or posting to the
website. Some of you have already
attended a workshop, perhaps hosting one.
There are two intents in my sending you this
newsletter. The first is to update you
on the dates and locations of upcoming workshops that you or someone you know
might like to attend.
Scheduled
Workshops:
October
21-22 in Denver, Colorado. Contact
Bruce Moen at BAMoen@msn.com for details
and to sign up.
November 11-12 in Seattle, Washington. Contact Joe Meboe at joe@meboe.com for and to sign up.
The other intent is to share some of the
experiences of past workshop participants and update you on new features as my
workshop evolves.
I’ll be sending out a new issue of this
newsletter each month. If you’d like to
have it sent to someone you know, please have them contact me and I’ll be happy
to add their email address to the list.
If you’d like your name removed from the list please email me at BAMoen@msn.com and I’ll take care of it.
New
Workshop Features
As a result of a participant’s experience
during the Oakland, CA workshop last June I’m adding a new exercise to the
Exploring the Afterlife workshop. As
one of the retrieval exercises participants will be guided to retrieve a part
of Self. One of this month’s
participant retrieval experiences shared below is basis for this new workshop
feature. I’ve changed the names of
participants whose experiences I’m sharing, for their privacy.
Participant’s
Retrieval of a part of Self
Susan was having some difficulty learning
to perceive There, she’s like me, often times I don’t “see” anything but
blackness during the experience, but I know what the scene looks like if I
could see it. During the first of three
retrieval exercises she successfully performed a retrieval, and understood what
I meant by “knowing what it would look like if I could see.” She been very disappointed up to that point,
feeling like she just couldn’t learn to perceive There.
During the retrieval exercises I normally
look at each participant, physically, to get a feel for what’s going on. I noticed Susan’s body physically trembling
several times during the exercise, and felt a little concern. She seemed to be okay, just a little mild
shaking. During our debriefing session
that followed this exercise, she shared her experience and blew me away.
In that last of the three retrieval
exercises she got her first clear visual of a Helper. She describe the Helper as a female surrounded by glowing white
light. The Helper told her they were
going to do something a little different that the two retrievals she just
completed. The Helper guided her to
someone she instantly recognized as a “part of herself she’d walled off a long
time ago.” As she looked at the part of
herself behind the clear wall, she knew everything about who it was, when she
walled it off, the effects on her life.
With the Helper’s assistance she took that part of herself back into
herself, if that makes any sense to you.
Susan said the feelings of that rejoining, that reunion, were impossible
to describe. She said her body was
physically shaking throughout that experience due to the range of emotion, and
that the joy was indescribable.
Susan’s experience was the first retrieval
of a part of self I’ve witnessed during any of my workshops. Seeing the profound effect Susan’s
experience had made me realize the importance to teaching others the techniques
that could lead them to such an experience.
That’s why I’ve added it as a specific exercise to the workshop.
Participant
Animal Retrievals
In Melbourne, Australia I witnessed the
first animal retrievals during a workshop.
The first was a small dog who didn’t realize he’d died and was so
worried he done something wrong. June,
the workshop participant, helped the little dog to understand that the reason
his master didn’t call him anymore, and the kids didn’t play “chase” with him
anymore, was that he no longer had a physical body they could see. The little dog expressed great relief that
it wasn’t something he’d done wrong that had caused his family not to play with
him anymore.
An interesting facet of this retrieval was
that all my verbal guidance during the experience was intended to bring each
participant to a human being needing retrieval. In our debriefing session June explained that she didn’t get any
impression of a Helper arriving at the beginning of the exercise. Even though she wasn’t getting anything she
decided just to “play along” when the Helper was to bring her to a ‘person
needing retrieval.’ The next thing she
knew there was a small white dog standing in front of her. She saw the dog but was still looking for
the ‘person’ she was to retrieve. As
the exercise continued she decided that since no person was showing up, she’d
try to communicate with the dog. It was
then that she realized the dog was actually the “person.”
After helping the little guy understand his
situation, June told him there was someone she’d like to introduce him to. Facilitating a connection between the Helper
and the “retrievee” is part of the retrieval exercise I teach in the
workshop. When she saw the Helper for
the first time, also supposed to be a human being, a large white dog walked
from behind her toward the little dog.
The two dogs introduced themselves to each other in the usual sniffing
ritual dogs use. When June followed the
Helper as he took the little dog to “a better place” they landed in a huge
pasture filled with other dogs and puppies romping around the field. The little dog saw the others immediately
and ran off to play. There is a doggie
Heaven! Since this first animal
retrieval I’ve witnessed several others during workshops, and not all of them
have been dogs.
Participant’s
Verified Retrieval Contact
Steve attended the workshop in Sydney,
Australia, and reported minimal visual contact during the retrieval
exercises. He was getting brief,
indistinct images of people throughout each exercise, and successfully performed
retrievals each time.
About two weeks after the workshop Steve
emailed me to say he’d continued using the techniques after he returned
home. He decided to try to contact a
cousin who died fifteen years ago as the result of suicide. During the retrieval he, unexpectedly, first
made contact with his deceased great aunt.
His aunt gave him a specific phrase she’d used to tease Steve’s mother
when his mother was a little girl. It
was something Steve had no way of knowing beforehand.
After the contact with both his great aunt
and his cousin, Steve called his mother on the phone to ask about the
phrase. His mother confirmed his great
aunt teased her with that very phrase when she was a little girl. Steve now has, through his own direct
experience, confirmed the existence of our Afterlife. He’s continuing to develop skill with the techniques he learned
in the workshop and continuing to explore.
After the recent Russian submarine sinking
Steve decided to try using the techniques to explore the submarine. The information he gathered during his
experience, like damage to the bow and quick death of many in that area of the
ship, the listing of the sub to one side, and gathering of survivors in the
stern of the sub, were all confirmed in later news reports.
From my experience Steve’s success at
getting verification will continue the process of learning that eliminates old,
blocking beliefs, and further improve his perceptual abilities.
Credit
Card payments:
HealingShop.com can process your credit card
payment. That site is temporarily under
reconstruction and so the owner, Judy, has volunteered to handle payments via
email or phone. You can email Judy at jjjstamper@aol.com to arrange email or telephone
payment.
Hosting
Workshops
Several of you have expressed interest in
hosting a workshop in your area. I’d
like to do whatever I can to help you do that.
One possibility is for me to put you in touch with others in your area
who’ve expressed interest in attending a workshop. If you can facilitate putting on a workshop for between ten and
twenty people you attend for free and share in any profit. If you’re interested please email me and
I’ll help in whatever way I can to bring my workshop to your area.
That’s
the September Workshop Newsletter. I
hope to hear from those of you interested in hosting a workshop and look
forward to meeting some of you in person.
Love,
Bruce